SoundHound Inc.’s Houndify and the Samsung ARTIK™ Platform Ecosystem
Collaborate to Bring the Power of Intelligent, Voice-Enabled,
Conversational Interfaces to Millions of Connected Devices

Samsung ARTIK Modules Can Now Run Houndify, the World’s Most Advanced
Speech Recognition and Natural Language Understanding Platform From
SoundHound Inc.

April 27, 2016 02:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--As part of the Samsung Developer Conference 2016 in San Francisco, SoundHound
Inc.®, the leading innovator in sound recognition and
voice search technologies, has announced a collaboration between the
company’s new Houndify platform and the Samsung ARTIK platform ecosystem
to enable hundreds of millions of connected devices to have the power of
voice-enabled conversational interface.

SoundHound Inc. recently launched Houndify™,
the world’s most advanced developer platform that enables anyone to
seamlessly create a smart, voice-enabled, conversational interface.
Houndify enables developers to revolutionize their products and services
by easily adding voice search and voice control to their apps and
devices while delivering a natural conversational user experience. The
first Houndified product, Hound,
a voice search & assistant app was released earlier this year for iOS
and Android.

“It is important to us to provide developers with the best technology
building blocks on top of the Samsung ARTIK Platform so that developers
can focus on the design of the key differentiated features and leverage
breakthrough technologies,” said Curtis Sasaki, Vice President of
Ecosystems, Samsung Electronics. “The Houndify platform is a perfect
example of the power of leveraging open platforms and ecosystems for the
larger developer community to create compelling user experiences.”

The open Samsung ARTIK platform provides all the essential hardware and
software building blocks to allow faster, simpler development of new
enterprise, industrial and consumer applications. This allows developers
to focus on their areas of expertise in designing new applications and
services rather than having to build entire systems from the ground up,
enabling a faster time-to-market.

Samsung and SoundHound worked closely to enable Houndify across the
entire Samsung ARTIK family of modules. The collaboration resulted in an
optimized version of the Houndify SDK that can run on the Samsung ARTIK
1 module, using extremely low memory and processing power, while
unlocking the full power of the Houndify platform. The new SDK is
available on Houndify.com
to all developers interested in the ARTIK platform, and is being
actively integrated with devices that can be shipped to hundreds of
millions of consumers in the near future, with some shipping later this
year.

“We are a strong believer in the IoT revolution – the world of connected
devices around us. We also believe that the most compelling, and often
the only form of communication with these connected devices is using
voice and natural language,” said Keyvan Mohajer, Founder and CEO,
SoundHound Inc. “The Samsung ARTIK platform enables developers to more
easily create a connected device, and the Houndify platform enables them
to quickly and easily add a voice-enabled, conversational interface to
whatever they build.”

More information about the Samsung ARTIK platform and development tools
can be found at https://developer.artik.io/.
Developers interested in exploring the Houndify platform can visit www.houndify.com
to sign up and learn more.

About SoundHound Inc.:

SoundHound
Inc. turns sound into understanding and actionable meaning. We
believe in enabling humans to interact with the things around them in
the same way we interact with each other: by speaking naturally to
mobile phones, cars, TVs, music speakers, coffee machines, and every
other part of the emerging 'connected' world. Our consumer product,
Hound, leverages our Speech-to-Meaning technology to showcase a
groundbreaking smartphone experience, and is the first product to
leverage and showcase the Houndify platform. Our SoundHound product
applies our technology to music, enabling people to discover, explore,
and share the music around them, and even find the name of that song
stuck in their heads by singing or humming. And through the Houndify
platform, we empower developers to be part of the Speech-to-Meaning
revolution. Mission: Houndify everything.